Tour de Jones
I will certainly be responding to the Graham Harrison review which seems to confirm I am about as welcome these days in Wales as I am in Illinois. As the Emperor Gaius once declared, Let them hate me etc. etc.…
Category Postcards from Palookaville
Table Manners
This week’s Back to Basics is on the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is one of the most basic activities of the church. More ink hit more pages in the Reformation on this topic than on any other, including justification…
Table Manners
This week’s Back to Basics is on the Lord’s Supper. The Lord’s Supper is one of the most basic activities of the church. More ink hit more pages in the Reformation on this topic than on any other, including justification…
What’s in a name?
Anthony Bradley has asked a thought-provoking question: why is ‘Reformed’ more often associated with Baptists than Presbyterians in popular parlance in the current climate? A number of thoughts come to mind. ‘Reformed’ as a term has expanded its meaning over…
What’s in a name?
Anthony Bradley has asked a thought-provoking question: why is ‘Reformed’ more often associated with Baptists than Presbyterians in popular parlance in the current climate? A number of thoughts come to mind. ‘Reformed’ as a term has expanded its meaning over…
Decline and Fall
Practical Ethics, a webpage based at the University of Oxford, has an interesting post on research that suggests a society’s crime rate will be higher where there is widespread rejection of the notion of hell. Statistics are statistics, of course,…
Decline and Fall
Practical Ethics, a webpage based at the University of Oxford, has an interesting post on research that suggests a society’s crime rate will be higher where there is widespread rejection of the notion of hell. Statistics are statistics, of course,…
Tips for teachers (and perhaps for book puffers)
Listening to my lectures on Medieval Church on iTunes, Justin Taylor heard me make this statement which is now, ten years on, somewhat amusing: “I’m recommending GR Evans on Bernard of C based on her reputation, even though I haven’t…
Tips for teachers (and perhaps for book puffers)
Listening to my lectures on Medieval Church on iTunes, Justin Taylor heard me make this statement which is now, ten years on, somewhat amusing: “I’m recommending GR Evans on Bernard of C based on her reputation, even though I haven’t…
Augustine on the Big Screen
A friend brought my attention to the following trailer and promotional website this morning. It is hard to imagine how a film of Augustine’s life could fail to be interesting. And with Franco Nero in the cast, we can assume…